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Inside and outside sales can often be perceived as complete opposites. According to InsideSales.com research report on the State of Sales in the United States and EMEA, field sales made up 71.2% of the sales force, while inside sales made up only 28.8% of the sales force in 2017. The situation is rapidly changing though, as the sales models are blending and the differences between the two become less and less noticeable.

We’ve added an ability to schedule appointments and book resources inside Bitrix24 CRM. If you run a service-based business, like a nail salon, a vet clinic or an auto repair shop, you’ll love this new feature.

Here’s what it’s all about. Suppose you are a dog groomer. It takes an hour to do the job, so when a client calls, you tell them about available time slots and book them for a certain date and time. Now you can do that inside Bitrix24 CRM. Awesome, right?

We are happy to add another integration app that some of our users have been asking for a while - JotForm. JotForm is a popular website form creator launched in 2006 and used by over 2 million websites. All the data entered in JotForm forms will automatically end up in Bitrix24 CRM as leads. The app is free.

On another note, folks from Leadsbridge have announced that they released Slack integration for Bitrix24. More information and additional integrations can be found on their website.

It’s May already and you know what it means – it’s time for the Spring 2018 Release presentation. If you’ve got an hour to spare on May 23 at 10 AM Eastern Standard Time, please join us for a webinar. This time we’ll be showing you new features soon to be available inside Bitrix24 accounts AND sharing our roadmap for 2018. Live streaming will be limited to the first 1000 attendees, so don’t delay and reserve your seat now.

You can now use your own SMTP server when sending emails from Bitrix24 CRM. To do so, simply click email icon in any CRM entity, select 'Add sender' in the From: field and specify your SMTP server details.

Do you have business partners, contractors or clients who use Bitrix24 as well? Now, if you have a commercial Bitrix24 plan, you can create tasks that involve individuals from other Bitrix24 accounts. The instructions for this new feature are available in this helpdesk article.
Tags: tasks, project management

We've recently added an ability to print any Bitrix24 page to all accounts. Most importantly, you can now print Gantt charts as well - something that many Bitrix24 users have been asking for a while. Want to print your weekly schedule? Easy. CRM reports? Sure. Task list? Same thing.

According to the Ernst and Young study conducted in 2015, one of the top concerns for employees was, “being able to work flexibly and still be on track for promotion”. Remote work is said to replace office work by 2020. But while remote work provides tons of benefits to employers and employees, there are also many challenges. It’s not uncommon to see remote workers struggling to see the bigger picture and become a part of the company. Employers, too, fear they won’t be able to get the work done and consider remote work from productivity and efficiency standpoint.

If you are using Xero as your accounting solution, we have great news for you. You can now use this free app in order to synchronize data between Bitrix24 and Xero and issue invoices inside Xero.
Tags: apps, marketplace, Xero